1. Emotional Development (Infant)

2. Emotional Development
Process of learning to recognize and express one’s feelings and learning to establish one’s identity and individuality.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT = Process of learning to interact with others and to express oneself to others.

3. Group Questions
1. What are signs of healthy emotional development in teens and adults?
2. What are signs of healthy social development?
3. Do you think healthy emotional development is possible without healthy social development? Why or Why not?

4. Emotional Development Depends upon:
Individuality
Type of care the baby receives
Atmosphere at home

5. MISTRUST CYCLE

6. TRUST CYCLE

7. What is the Foundation to a Successful Family??
Affection and Harmony between parents.
Is it ok it parents argue?
YES!! They are 2 people with different opinions.

8. How to comfort a child who has had all needs met…
Change baby’s position
Cuddle and walk around
Distracting the baby with a toy
Talk or sing softly
Rocking

9. Emotions at Birth
Limited to pleasure or satisfaction, during which baby is quiet
Pain or discomfort during which baby cries

10. PLEASANT EMOTIONS 2 months = Delight 7-8 months = Elation
9 months = Affection

11. UNPLEASANT EMOTIONS 1-2 months = Distress 4-5 months = Anger
4-5 months = Disgust
6 months = Fear

12. Social Development (INFANT)

13. Social Development 1st days = Responds to human voice
1 month = Stops crying when lifted. Face brightens when sees a familiar face

14. 2 months = SMILES
eyes follow moving objects
3 months = Turn head towards voice
Wants companionship

15. 4 months = LAUGHS
looks to others for entertainment
5 months = interest in family

16. 6 months = loves company
Peek a boo
7 months = Prefers PARENTS over other family members or (strangers)

17. 8 months = Looks for company
9-10 months = Love attention, underfoot, love being chased, throw toys over and over again

18. 11-12 months = CENTER OF ATTENTION

19. Group Questions Why is attachment important for an infant?
Which aspect of attachment represents EMOTIONAL development?
Which aspect of attachment represents SOCIAL development?
When do you think attachment begins to be established between a parent and a baby?
In what other kinds of relationships (other than parent and child) does attachment exist?

20. ATTACHMENT Babies 1st real social relationship
A special, strong bond between 2 people
REQUIRES: Physical Contact
Interaction

21. ATTACHMENT
Happens around the 6th month
WITH parents or caregivers

22. Harry Harlow
Who is he??
None of the monkeys raised by substitute mothers developed normal social relationships.

23. What happens to a child when there no one to love them?
NO RESONCE
There stop responding to people or objects around them. They turn inward.

24. FAILURE TO THRIVE Baby does NOT grow and develop properly.
May die from lack of Love.

25. STRANGER ANXIETY
FEAR, Usually expressed by crying, of unfamiliar people
8 months
Indicator of baby’s improving memory

26. HOW BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED:
Through relationships with others
Daily routine
Certain behaviors rewarded
More sensitive to attitudes than words
Consistency: repeatedly acting the same way

27. Consitiancey
Necessary for a child to identify the behavior expected by parent(s).

28. PERSONALITY
Total of all traits that are consistent in a behavior

29. INFLUENCES ON PERSONALITY
Born With
Environment
Self Concept

30. Group Questions
Which do you think has a stronger influence on a baby’s personality—heredity or personality? WHY?
How do you think a baby’s personality is affected by the personality of the parents?
Does this effect change if the parents are NOT the baby’s primary caregivers?
If so, HOW?
If not, WHY NOT?
What kind of control can a person have over their own personality?
By the time an individual becomes a teen, is their personality “set”?
If so, WHY AND HOW?
If not, what kinds of changes are possible, and how can those changes be made?

31. SENSITIVE PERSONALITY
Fussy and Irritable
Slow to warm
Reluctant to try new things
Notice changes
New experiences may end in failure, pain, or embarrassment. Child my lose self confidence, resulting in uncertainty, insecurity

32. SENSITIVE CHILD AS an adult by become counselors or therapists
Parents can help by being PATIENT, ENCOURAGEING, and providing lots of REASSURANCE

33. PLACID PERSONALITY Easy Going Less upset by changes
Happy, cheerful, patient, quiet
Adjusts easily to new things
Minimum of fuss and upset

34. PLACID CHILD May become peacemakers, will get along with co-workers
Parents need to love, encourage, push, and challenge

35. AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY
Active and on the go
Responses are extreme
Eats more actively, cries more loudly, kicks harder
Strong willed
Temper tantrums
Needs CONSTANT parenting
Needs to be made aware of feelings and interests of others

36. AGGRESSIVE CHILD May become LEADER, SPORTS, PRESIDENT of company
Parents need to impose LIMITS, LOVE, PRAISE
If this child is not limited or channeled in a positive direction, this child could get into a lot of trouble.